A special Christmas tourney for everyone this time around, this may be your only chance to own a piece of CB history, Koyaanisqatsi!

The rules:

YOU MAY NOT USE AUCTIONS FOR ANY REASON.
Decay is barred
Tattoos are barred
You may fight anyone at any time
There is no BA limit
The tournament will begin on the 27th at noon, and end on the 10th of January at noon.

Winning is simple, the first person to defeat Koy wins.

There will be no second and third place prizes, however, everyone who participates and spends at least 1000 BA will earn 200k.

Because you cannot use auctions, I will supply weapons. You will have access to a BoNE, and a choice between an MSK or an ELB.

I'd just like to point out that the winning condition in this tournament is awesome. I've been reading about many complaints about past tournaments and I've read the conditions. I like the improvements - having to have to beat a specific character, almost like a boss. I'd imagine this would be good for every tournament - and change the strategy of the "boss" character each tournament.

I'm kind of worried about someone attacking Koy to weaken him so a certain tourney character can then beat the weakened opponent. Is it possible to transfer Koy over as a tourney character so that nobody but tourney characters can attack him?

"in case you missed it in chat, slayer mentioned a 4000% bonus to rewards. "

Let's say you can beat him with the proper strategy at around half his MPR (that's actually less than half his XP), so let's say you'll need 1.8 mil MPR to beat him... IMO, that's actually a conservative estimate.
To get to 1.8 mil MPR (about 40% of top MPR) you would need next to the equivalent of a 40% timespan since CB started - and that would be roughly 200 weeks times 0.4 equal 80 weeks. You will also need to NOT miss any BA at all during those 2 weeks of the tournament.

But... wait... that's calibrated for "all additional daily purchaseable BA used"... so, actually, you will end up about one third lower than that !

To be honest, I'm not sure a 4000% bonus will be quite enough - at the very end of 2 weeks, some MIGHT be in a position to ATTEMPT to beat him, but that's about it.
Personally, I am suggesting at least 5000% bonus, as a bare minimum, preferably even 6000%.

Well, considering that on average I don't even manage to get to a typical tournament BA cap by the time this is over, and considering it's running in a "pre-holiday RL get-stuff-done" frenzy period (which also include Christmas, when I probably won't even be online at all), I will pre-assume I have basically zero chance of getting a high enough MPR to beat him even with the optimal possible strategy - and I certainly won't be the first one to beat him, even if I do manage to get high enough eventually.
So if I participate at all, best I can hope for is the 200k participation prize (which comes down to basically one and a half day's worth of normal income).

Hooray for the tournament with the lowest participation rate (I can only assume most of us will be out during the holidays).
I don't suppose a delay to make it start on, say, 3rd of January 2009 (or even a couple of days later) would be possible ?

Congratulations Novice, on the 10th Koy will be sent to you. the 200k participation prize will be sent out when the tournament ends. Until then feel free to toy around with strategies ect, however please refrain from using auctions.

Congrats Nov! I knew you were planning something when your ELB wasn't one in the top 10 no more. Noticed you had a lot of DM, which was the strategy I was going for. I tried to even it out more, but it did work out for you. Once again congrats on this competitive tourny that you own.

"Just wondering. What if I accidentally sold my ELB to the store, and then accidentally bought it back with my regular character?"

you would also likely guarantee that we never have a tournament such as this again. we would ostracize you from the community and your sad little reclusive life would shrivel into obscurity and depression. ; )